Here are five popular ways to capture desktop screencast for Linux
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Looking for a nice KDE distribution? Try Mandriva 2008 Spring
My old laptop Acer Aspire 1705SMi with Pentium 4 3GHz and 1 GB RAM started to show its age. Windows XP did not run on it exceptionally well, so I decided to install Linux on it too...I downloaded the free edition of Mandriva 2008 Spring and burnt it to a DVD. I ran the LiveCD and I must say I was impressed.
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Drupal’s Creator Envisions Web Publishing’s Plug-and-Play Future
Dries Buytaert started down his path to fame when he coded up a private message board for his college dormitory. Nine years later, that modest bulletin board software package has grown into Drupal, one of the most popular open-source content publishing systems on the web with thousands of active contributors.
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Multimedia support in OpenSuse 11 (MP3, MPEG-4, DiVX, etc.)
If you are using KDE - Download and run (execute) this
If you are using Gnome - Download and execute this
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Choosing a Linux distro
As all of you might be knowing that distro is a short name for Linux Distributions, here I list many distros which have gained a lot ground of late and can be truly called desktop OS. Some information are also appended along with them so that you can make a nice decision. All comments,suggestion and feedback are welcome.
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Explaining Linux lingo to non-Linux users
The other day, I was trying to explain to my wife why I wanted to install Ubuntu on my Eee PC in place of Xandros. She is not tech-stupid. She’s quite tech-savvy actually. She just isn’t that Linux-savvy. I found myself spewing out a whole bunch of words I knew she wouldn’t understand. Why would any normal person know what a distro or a repository is? What’s a kernel? What’s sudo?...
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Gedit plugins for everyone
If you drift between distributions, one of the first things you might notice is that Gedit, GNOME's text editor, is not always the same on each system. For instance, in Debian, Gedit is a relatively simple text edit, while in Ubuntu, it sprouts features that Debian users may never have seen. The difference is the plugins that each distribution packages with Gedit and enables by default.
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Why I Use Gentoo?
So, I have been asked this question many times. And of course the assumption is that I am some sort of a masochist who enjoys wasting time on compiling packages. However, that is not entirely true. There are some other reasons why, after trying Ubuntu (started linux with it), Gentoo and then Arch I settled on Gentoo.
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Firefox 3.0 first impressions, part 1: the great, the good
Download Day came and went, boasting an impressive 8 million downloads in the first 24 hours. Today, they’ve almost doubled that number in a little over a half a week later. Now that users have field tested the new product, I’d like to take a look at some of great and not-so-great features and capabilities of the new Firefox.
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Firefox 3.0 first impressions, part 2: the ok, the bad, the ugly
Continuing with the analysis of the Firefox 3.0 browser, I take a look at some of the features and facts that aren’t really that great and add very little to the new browser. I also observe some of the shortcomings of Firefox and take note of some of the bad press surrounding it.
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Firefox 3.0 is a red-hot upgrade
A new Firefox browser released this week promises to make the Web-surfing experience just a little bit quicker while easing up on computer memory and tightening security.
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Lojban and Hacking
I had recently discovered the Lojban language while I was surfing the net. The characteristics of this language greatly appealed to me as a debater and so, I decided to heavily invest my effort into studying this language. Consequently, I came across two free software tools that could aid my study of Lojban: KVocTrain and Mnemosyne.
Read more »How To Love Linux On The Desktop
Blowing away a computer and installing a different operating system is all part of a day's work for the Test Center. In fact, some projects in the Test Center over the past year have included a lot of time spent simply installing and reinstalling various Linux distributions on a single machine.
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Interview with Liran Tal, author of daloRADIUS
daloRADIUS is a web application written in PHP with the purpose to manage a RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service) deployment, suited for both WISPs (Wireless Internet Service Providers) and Hotspots.
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atunes - iTunes/Winamp/Amarok killer
aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems, ...
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